Out of the loop

I know she did an ad about jeans and it got a bit of outrage, but why are Trump and Republicans getting involved?

I am beyond numb to the stupid hateful shit he says. So i am OOTL on this.

That’s it basically.

Someone explain the memes please.

It feels like 6 months ago, I couldn’t go a few hours without being exposed to some new wild claims from Microsoft or Google, or any of the other companies working on this. Lately nothing comes up in any of my feeds.

I am seeing a lot of memes with the outline of a man lying on the ground with references to Saddam Hussein. Can somebody tell me what is going on?

I left reddit about 2 years ago before the oct 7th attacks, so I never really saw the reaction over there. I didn't expect it to be like lemmy, reddits always been a bit islamaphobic and quick to take up US state department propaganda, but I assumed by now though that since most on there are liberals under 50 that theyd be somewhere around "not a genocide, but Israel is committing atrocities and a ceasefire would be good." on the issue

There must be dozens of the damn things cable tied up lamp posts lining a few streets around here (West Yorkshire). What the fuck happened?

I know nothing about this but apparently most people are fully abreast of the situation

I have noticed posts and comments mocking posts which have a mild curse word crossed out or ‘censored’ in some way. Yes, it was here before, but now I feel it increased. This post was my final straw: https://lemmy.world/post/34998482

Have a look, you'll see what I mean. They seem to think the site is dead or dying.

On youtube I see tons of avatars and mentions of clippy, the oldscool windows help tool. Are they protesting something?

I've seen people posting tweets from public figures talking about alligators, seen other people joking about alligators. It appears to me that the issue is political, not environmental, but I don't fully get the picture.

Saw people talking in comments at several places now, expressing animosity towards them to say the least, always presented as something that everyone seems to know about.

I'm finding it hard to find concise info on what's been going on in/around Iran. Can anyone throw a brief timeline of events for me? Pretty pretty please?

Why are we doing them? What did I miss?

Why are so many companies updating their privacy policy lately, I noticed many companies including reddit and some games I play updating their privacy policies? Why is that, is it just a coincidence or something big happened?

For instance: https://lemmy.ca/comment/16835886

Disclaimer: I'm not American, I don't live in the US

Its been a while but I always wondered why the us decided to Lift the ban?

I know the fun answers (and choose to believe them a little), but what was the real (cover) story?

Haven't used Twitch in awhile and was surprised when trying to follow a channel only to see a phone verification prompt.

I've seen a couple posts in the top in the last 6 hours feed, and it seems like people are really up in arms about this functional programming stuff. Not really sure what it even is.

He expressed that a shutdown will favor Trump and Musk, so sounds reasonable?

With PewDiePie switching to Linux, I've seen more and more post with him and they often get locked.

I almost hate to ask this since it's come up so much already, but what's with the Dragon Rider drama? Like what's going on

We have new members because of people fleeing, I'm seeing communities being archived, and just generally more than the regular Reddit being Reddit.

Seriously, what’s the significance of the word? There are many teens in my neighborhood, as well as me having a teenage sister, who laugh hysterically at the word.

I am a self proclaimed wiki-phile, I always donated when I could. It was kind of like going to the library without the fresh book smell.

I've heard Reddit is setting themselves up for another major fumble and that it relates to how much Spez is a fanboy of Elon Musk.

There's the whole TikTok thing, talk about EV cars, and now DeepSeek. I know I've heard my own stuff too, but I want to see what other people are hearing and seeing?

In one case, the same spot in the Gulf of Mexico was labelled "Reclaimed People's Climate Mao Museum".

I saw a meme about something of fake frames, but i don't know what happened.

I'm sure some political talk will be unavoidable but I'd like to keep this dry and to the point if we could.

Title says it all. I see a lot of chatter, but what's going on?

I see literally nothing but memes and tweet screenshots. An overview of what happened would really help fill me in

Seen a lot of memes about it, no idea what's going on.

So I thought that BlueSky was set up just like Lemmy in that it was fully decentralized into a sort of "terrorist cell" structure that wasn't focused on profits, but then found out that BlueSky has a CEO. Since this is a business, what makes BlueSky fundamentally different from Twitter or Instagram?

I'm aware of the url mishap with the dolls and vaguely aware of the poster controversy but I've also seen people online call it a PR disaster and I'm entirely out of the loop on that

Is the word Halloween not acceptable anymore?

I saw the apology statement and the original tweet but I'm genuinely confused about what people are mad about?

How likely or close are we to another pandemic? What would be the most likely government responses?

What I think I know : They tried to take a picture at Arlington National Cemetery, but couldn’t? There was a physical altercation maybe? But the Trump campaign said there wasn’t?

What happened in the vegan community?

Somehow I missed what out of this world happened to result in some people stranded in space, and I thought it'd be fun/interesting to see how others describe what led to it.

I saw someone say it was because she's supporting dems but that doesn't seem like enough for the amount of dunking I've seen. Did y'all think she was so far to the left that that would be a betrayal? I've typically thought of her as a progressive more than a leftist. Is there some statement she made I'm not aware of?

I keep seeing him but can't figure out his role in the memes. Is it random like the orb thing?

I heard that CloudStrike is something that runs on Windows servers, and an error with it caused a bunch of Win Servers to crash. What's the impact of the issue too?

Not that it personally affects me- I'm not in USA and it's one of the platforms I dislike the most. But I can't find a concise explanation for *why*.

I don’t speak German and even if I did I wouldn’t know what is going on as to why there is so many posts in German referencing pizza. Anyone in Germany care to clue me in?

News sources appear to be lying in the worst scenario, or distorting and confusing you, in the best scenario ..

I was only caught up with the news to its release date and didnt bother to check on it since then. I don't plan to play it, but rather to check on the headlines and reviews surrounding it since I've heard some negative comments about the game. I know about the recent trends of the gaming industry but I was kinda hoping for Starfield to be better since I really dig the concept of open world and space exploration games.